PRESS RELEASE
D.i.Re – Women online against violence: the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe once again highlights Italy's serious shortcomings in the implementation of sentences on violence against women
D.i.Re – Women on the Net against violence expresses satisfaction with yet another reminder from the Committee of Ministers of Europe to Italy: the monitoring procedure for the execution of the sentences of the European Court regarding violence against women has reported serious non-compliance and lack of responses.
"A great recognition of our work, which aims to highlight the serious shortcomings of the protection system for women who suffer violence. Work that sees experts at the forefront D.i.Re which brought to the attention of the Council of Ministers information and data that demonstrate how difficult the judicial process still is for women who suffer or have suffered violence.” Declares the president of D.i.King Antonella Veltri.
AND.i.Re, in fact, who brought to the attention of the Committee data and information which still show a judicial path full of obstacles for women who suffer violence and which the Committee of Ministers accepted in their entirety, expressing concern about the low rate of convictions , the high number of dismissals and violations of precautionary measures, calling for monitoring of the Cartabia reform and the measures that the Government says it has put in place. The request is precise: we need certain data that the problem is contained, verification of the concrete application of the new laws and continuous monitoring of the results.
“The European Court of Human Rights in the various sentences condemning Italy has always specified that the rules exist, their concrete application is lacking” declares Titti Carrano, lawyer of the D Lawyers Network.i.King.”We need concrete support for anti-violence centres, enhancing the wealth of skills acquired over the years not only for welcoming and supporting women who suffer violence, but also for prevention, training and awareness-raising activities. It is important that the training of magistrates is made mandatory and the Committee of Ministers requests that specific activities be launched to promote the use of gender-sensitive judicial language, as we have always urged” concludes the lawyer.